ALAN RICKMAN SHERRIFF OF NOTTINGHAM MOVIE
It was the proverbial licence to print money for movie studios, and the cash made by a DVD release comfortably offset a box office failure. And it turned out from my social media chats at the end of last week that there’s a good number of people who aren’t aware of it.īasically, in the early 2000s, the DVD market was in its prime. Thing is, though, what really gives the story credence is the subsequent emergence of a second cut of the film. I talked about that in a Film Stories podcast episode, here. The fact that director Kevin Reynolds was basically shut out of the editing room contributes to the legend, too. Nobody, to my record, has confirmed this who was involved in the film, but it’s one of those stories that’s also not been denied, and feels really rather plausible. But that it became clear Rickman was dominating and stealing the film, and thus it went back into the editing suite to reduce his screen time, and pop a bit more Costner back in. The legend goes that an early cut of the movie had a lot more of the late, great Alan Rickman in the film, as the Sheriff Of Nottingham. It was recommended too on last week’s Kermode & Mayo Film Review programme, where Doctor Kermode talked about the story of a very different cut of the film.
I don’t hide my love of Kevin Costner films, and this was one I watched repeatedly growing up (and once I was grown up). Last week, I ended up in a conversation on social media about the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
Light spoilers for Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves lie ahead.
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